So what? Cure for Aids, now I can have my orgy.
Its true, no one gets Aids when there using there (Zinc) fingers.
Hear god: reality.net.ConnectException: Resource unavailable prior to the Eschaton.
I had a quick look at there, despite transhumanism and all the research into nanotech and talk of singularities. The center and subject is brand new,
there first newsletter being April 2006.
He's the link to there site, and staff list:
Future of Humanity Institute
Nick Bostrom, assumes that life on mars and on
earth would have arisen independently. This might be
true. However, Meteors hitting mars have in the
recent past, had enough energy to knock mars rock into space, whence it eventually lands on earth.
In the early solar system, there where a lot more
collisions. And it seem that the force of the explosions is not enough to sterilize the rocks, at
last not from the most hardened bacteria.
That means, that there is a strong possibility that single celled life can travel from earth to
mars, or (and due to the size of the planets gravity wells, this is much easier) the other way
round.
So its quite possible that there was once life on
Mars, and it wasn't independent to earth life. Rather it was a distant cousin. Given the ease of
travel, its quite likely that were are all Martians.
In the trans-Martian Pansperma theory we'd except to find pockets of life all over the solar system, anywhere that earth-like cells could populate given enough mutations ought to have
single celled life at least. And all these life-forms ought to be distant relatives, all using some DNA variant, with some similar genetic
coding system.
So life or relics of life on Mars.
Life or relics of life in Europa's oceans.
And even, maybe life on titan, or in the upper clouds of the gas giant planets.
But this wouldn't mean life was likely on other planets in the galaxy. So life on Mars wouldn't change the Nick Bostrom's Great filters, wouldn't
change the chance of there being other civilizations out there.
Actually that fact there Mars looks dead, despite being seeded from Earth, adds one
more Great filter to life. The Gaia hypothesis, due to James Lovelock, that once life forms, it creates ecosystems that self stabilize the environment, it seems can't be powerful enough to keep planets fertile over billions of years. Losing water (by photo-disintegration from UV light), was enough to sterilize most of Mars. And this will happen for any planet to small.
Another great filter comes from asteroid collisions, and this will happen more ofter for
bigger planets and planets not shields by have gas giants in the outer solar systems.
It also seem that planets formed to early, won't have enough heavy elements to be rocky like earth. And the planets to near the galactic center would be hit by supernova explosions too
often. So there is a Goldilocks zone in the galaxy (expanding with time) as well in the distance of a planet from a star.
Nick Bostom, makes a very interesting argument, that needs to be added to the Fermi Paradox. But,
due to the likelihood of Trans-Martians Pansperma, finding life on Mars, wouldn't make
me worry about the future of the Earth.
Thats some pretty hefty statistics 1% less telly per
year, equals 10,000 wikipedias. And while we all
have plenty of veg time, when we don't have the
energy to do anything else, most of us could easily spare much more than that.
The trouble is of course, I'm not sure society or
human knowledge as that much space for the average
person to be productive to human knowledge. If all
those extra hour went to Wikipedia it would need to get 10,000 times more specific (would it be easy to trade off for accuracy here), at lot of
fields of human knowledge don't go that deep.
I want to, hardon her?
A Band do, hard of hearing?
Seriously, Marketing 101.
Product name are supposed to be memorable, not
drift aside into something else.
Look at the diagram, the way, the period runs with temperature, suggesting, that for a particular temperature and period, a third variable, no doubt luminosity. If this is so, then astronomies have just found a very fast new standard candle, a light source of known brightness, that can be used to find the distance to object. In future our sky maps may just get that much more accurate.
Religious views, might not matter to a leaders economic decisions, might or might not matter to there foreign policy
decisions, but sooner or later there going to matter to domestic law and public funding. Things like stem cell research
policy, abortion, gay marriage, are definitely going to depend on a leaders religious views.
Ah, yes, i rembember beginning of term, you get your reading list, and half your grant goes straight into the
university bookshop. Learning isn't cheap, but the article wasn't about how students learn, but on how professors
and the professional researchers have to pay for there research tools. But it isn't really a problem because
the're institutions will keep them well stocked with journals and programs and lets not forget the compute hardware.
The only ones really excluded are amature academics. But that going to happen anyway with the shear ammount of time it takes for an amature to keep up with modern knowledge, while still having a day job.
My point, its always going to hard at the bleeding edge, if its was easy the bleeding edge would already be futher down the path of knowledge growth.
Having the read the paper, understanding about 1/4 of it, when i came to
http://motls.blogspot.com/2007/11/exceptionally-simple-theory-of.html Lubos Motl's comments about it,
they pretty much reminded me of what i though while reading it, except Motl put it very stridantly. A.G Lisi puts
the guage (spin-1) force particles in the same group (E8 of course) as the fermions (spin-1/2) particles. But his
theory isn't supersymmetric so its not clear to me how he can unify the fermions and bosons. On the other hand, when
http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2007/11/theoretically-simple-exception-of.html
Sabine H, blog said he seems to make sense Lisi' model as a true but unused unification of fermions and bosons.
Meanwhile Lisi, unifies gravity into the SM, in a very odd route, a single gravi-electric-weak model with a SO(7,1)
group. Now gravity is supposed to be described by symmetries of space-time, while the electroweak force is supposed to be an internal symmetries of particles, and as Motls describes, a theorem called the Coleman-Mandula theorem proves that never the twain shall met.
So what Lisi's work thus, is add up all the apples and all the oranges in known physics, put them in the same container, but not say anything about, why one thingy is an apple and the other is a orange.
And of course, Lisi model has space left over, all the apples and oranges together don't full E8, instead they's
space for another 20 particles, which he fills in on the diagrams, but says nothing about what they might do in
practice, (these extra particles are colored, so i immediately worry if the're going to cause proton decay.)
So far, Lisi's model doesn't seem to make any testible predictions, but its early days, and working through from
a group and how particles fit in it, to actually physical predictions is a very long trek.
In fact for some-one with a bit of knowledge of group theory, its not a deficult game to play, to take a group from
mathematics and try and fill the known elementary particles in on it. In fact its so easy to do, i've done one
myself, http://www.geocities.com/ch1rality/E8-E7-E6-F4.html starting from E8, and forming with 3 generations, some extra quark states, and just one extra neutrino.
Why E8? E8 is every mathematians favourite group, there a lots of group that can have any size, just 5 special ones
with unique sizes, E8, E7,E6,F4 and G2. And E8 is the biggest baddest group of the special lot.
Astromoners can usually work out how big an object was, but how fast its brightness changes.
The reason being nothing travels faster than light, so if an object varies over t secs, then
it must be smaller than 2t/c meters. So we have a 5ms blast, so the object that made the
blast smaller than 1500 km across. Combined with the large energy, 1e33 J or 1e16 Kg of matter converted.
Not much else could make such an explosion, except a neutron star. Still the blast wasn't that powerful,
i'd except a neutron star colision to release maybe 1/1000 of a solar mass as energy, this was a
hundred millon times less powerful. So maybe a super starquake (not the great spectrum game, but like an
earthquake on a neutron star), rather than a neutron star colision.
"Algorithms should not be patentable". If thats the case then nothing should be patentable.
Mechanisms are merely argorithms programmed in gears and cogs. Chemical synethesis is a
reciple, an algorithm for producing A from B,C,D etc. It not that algorithm should not be
patentable, it is that obvious algorithms should not be patentiable, they has to be some
deep inventive step to make a patent, something that took a lot of time or a lot of insight
to produce.
Has the ring of truth to it. Mind you if you've got nanotech, cancer shouldn't be a problem.
>The nanotech guys develop new batteries which can be charged as fast as capacitors and hold 5000 times the amount of energy in the >same package size.
Already happenned, look up supercapacitors, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercapacitors, well maybe nearer 500-1000 times, but
1 and 5 Farad capacitors are now mainstream.
Well since AMD has its phemon processor in some beta-preprotection stage ready for an autumn release, i expect there are very
busy now looking for errata (and speed path probs), and yes there list will be getting longer. I just wish them luck, getting these
things out. Intel's Core 2 been available for ages though and really the BIOS fixes should have been out immediately and it should
have been fixed in silicon by now.
Actually, its more there otherway round. Having read the article it looks like a more proof that dark matter isn't made of WIMPs.
Starting with the assumption of standard 1Gev-100Gev http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weakly_interacting_ma ssive_particleWIMPS.
The predict that the early universe will be full of these dark star things, that are big, diffuse and don't create heavy element or
go supernova, and hang around for as long as 600 Million years. Since no one as seen any of these, and since we need the first stars
to go supernova, and inject lots of heavy elements into galaxies, this looks like a big argument against WIMPs as CDM. The authors
didn't say as much though, perphaps they they've become to fond of there dark stars while working on them.
Reading this paper, makes me think its more likely that http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror_matter Mirror Matter, is the proper dark matter. Mirror matter also makes dark stars, but these ones, don't stop ordinary star formation, and do go boom, possibly explaining gamma ray bursts.
Yes, they should take a pornstar or two on the mission and licence the movie footage to one of the major porn labels.
The sales would probably pay for a major part of the mission. The only problem would be the titles which will be more
excruciating than triple anal. Things like, Butt Wreck: Where no man has come before.
I serious actually, it would be a good idea, and will probably be done in an orbitting hotel someday. But Nasa is of
course too prudish to let it happen.
>Magnetic field science works on a multiple of squares system.
>To generate 80 watts instead of 40 takes a field 4 times larger.
Actually its the otherway round. The energy in a magnetic field
is, E = 0.5*mu*B^2, where B is the field strength, so a 80 watts
of power, gives a field 1.41.. times larger.
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So what? Cure for Aids, now I can have my orgy. Its true, no one gets Aids when there using there (Zinc) fingers. Hear god: reality.net.ConnectException: Resource unavailable prior to the Eschaton.
I had a quick look at there, despite transhumanism and all the research into nanotech and talk of singularities. The center and subject is brand new, there first newsletter being April 2006. He's the link to there site, and staff list: Future of Humanity Institute
That means, that there is a strong possibility that single celled life can travel from earth to mars, or (and due to the size of the planets gravity wells, this is much easier) the other way round.
So its quite possible that there was once life on Mars, and it wasn't independent to earth life. Rather it was a distant cousin. Given the ease of travel, its quite likely that were are all Martians.
In the trans-Martian Pansperma theory we'd except to find pockets of life all over the solar system, anywhere that earth-like cells could populate given enough mutations ought to have single celled life at least. And all these life-forms ought to be distant relatives, all using some DNA variant, with some similar genetic coding system.
So life or relics of life on Mars.
Life or relics of life in Europa's oceans.
And even, maybe life on titan, or in the upper clouds of the gas giant planets.
But this wouldn't mean life was likely on other planets in the galaxy. So life on Mars wouldn't change the Nick Bostrom's Great filters, wouldn't change the chance of there being other civilizations out there.
Actually that fact there Mars looks dead, despite being seeded from Earth, adds one more Great filter to life. The Gaia hypothesis, due to James Lovelock, that once life forms, it creates ecosystems that self stabilize the environment, it seems can't be powerful enough to keep planets fertile over billions of years. Losing water (by photo-disintegration from UV light), was enough to sterilize most of Mars. And this will happen for any planet to small.
Another great filter comes from asteroid collisions, and this will happen more ofter for bigger planets and planets not shields by have gas giants in the outer solar systems.
It also seem that planets formed to early, won't have enough heavy elements to be rocky like earth. And the planets to near the galactic center would be hit by supernova explosions too often. So there is a Goldilocks zone in the galaxy (expanding with time) as well in the distance of a planet from a star.
Nick Bostom, makes a very interesting argument, that needs to be added to the Fermi Paradox. But, due to the likelihood of Trans-Martians Pansperma, finding life on Mars, wouldn't make me worry about the future of the Earth.
Thats some pretty hefty statistics 1% less telly per year, equals 10,000 wikipedias. And while we all have plenty of veg time, when we don't have the energy to do anything else, most of us could easily spare much more than that. The trouble is of course, I'm not sure society or human knowledge as that much space for the average person to be productive to human knowledge. If all those extra hour went to Wikipedia it would need to get 10,000 times more specific (would it be easy to trade off for accuracy here), at lot of fields of human knowledge don't go that deep.
I want to, hardon her? A Band do, hard of hearing? Seriously, Marketing 101. Product name are supposed to be memorable, not drift aside into something else.
Look at the diagram, the way, the period runs with temperature, suggesting, that for
a particular temperature and period, a third variable, no doubt luminosity. If this
is so, then astronomies have just found a very fast new standard candle, a light source
of known brightness, that can be used to find the distance to object. In future our
sky maps may just get that much more accurate.
Religious views, might not matter to a leaders economic decisions, might or might not matter to there foreign policy decisions, but sooner or later there going to matter to domestic law and public funding. Things like stem cell research policy, abortion, gay marriage, are definitely going to depend on a leaders religious views.
It is true, at least by my personally experience. At least for normal porn. Don't know about BSDM, probably best to stay away from that.
My point, its always going to hard at the bleeding edge, if its was easy the bleeding edge would already be futher down the path of knowledge growth.
Meanwhile Lisi, unifies gravity into the SM, in a very odd route, a single gravi-electric-weak model with a SO(7,1) group. Now gravity is supposed to be described by symmetries of space-time, while the electroweak force is supposed to be an internal symmetries of particles, and as Motls describes, a theorem called the Coleman-Mandula theorem proves that never the twain shall met.
So what Lisi's work thus, is add up all the apples and all the oranges in known physics, put them in the same container, but not say anything about, why one thingy is an apple and the other is a orange.
And of course, Lisi model has space left over, all the apples and oranges together don't full E8, instead they's space for another 20 particles, which he fills in on the diagrams, but says nothing about what they might do in practice, (these extra particles are colored, so i immediately worry if the're going to cause proton decay.)
So far, Lisi's model doesn't seem to make any testible predictions, but its early days, and working through from a group and how particles fit in it, to actually physical predictions is a very long trek.
In fact for some-one with a bit of knowledge of group theory, its not a deficult game to play, to take a group from mathematics and try and fill the known elementary particles in on it. In fact its so easy to do, i've done one myself, http://www.geocities.com/ch1rality/E8-E7-E6-F4.html starting from E8, and forming with 3 generations, some extra quark states, and just one extra neutrino.
Why E8? E8 is every mathematians favourite group, there a lots of group that can have any size, just 5 special ones with unique sizes, E8, E7,E6,F4 and G2. And E8 is the biggest baddest group of the special lot.
Astromoners can usually work out how big an object was, but how fast its brightness changes. The reason being nothing travels faster than light, so if an object varies over t secs, then it must be smaller than 2t/c meters. So we have a 5ms blast, so the object that made the blast smaller than 1500 km across. Combined with the large energy, 1e33 J or 1e16 Kg of matter converted. Not much else could make such an explosion, except a neutron star. Still the blast wasn't that powerful, i'd except a neutron star colision to release maybe 1/1000 of a solar mass as energy, this was a hundred millon times less powerful. So maybe a super starquake (not the great spectrum game, but like an earthquake on a neutron star), rather than a neutron star colision.
"Algorithms should not be patentable". If thats the case then nothing should be patentable. Mechanisms are merely argorithms programmed in gears and cogs. Chemical synethesis is a reciple, an algorithm for producing A from B,C,D etc. It not that algorithm should not be patentable, it is that obvious algorithms should not be patentiable, they has to be some deep inventive step to make a patent, something that took a lot of time or a lot of insight to produce.
Here's fun, if you search for "you suck", you get microsoft office, student addition.
Jazz isn't composed, its more like a game of each musician tring to beat each other musician by banging notes over there head.
Has the ring of truth to it. Mind you if you've got nanotech, cancer shouldn't be a problem. >The nanotech guys develop new batteries which can be charged as fast as capacitors and hold 5000 times the amount of energy in the >same package size. Already happenned, look up supercapacitors, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercapacitors, well maybe nearer 500-1000 times, but 1 and 5 Farad capacitors are now mainstream.
Well since AMD has its phemon processor in some beta-preprotection stage ready for an autumn release, i expect there are very busy now looking for errata (and speed path probs), and yes there list will be getting longer. I just wish them luck, getting these things out. Intel's Core 2 been available for ages though and really the BIOS fixes should have been out immediately and it should have been fixed in silicon by now.
I've now skimmed all the comments, there all science v god, with not a single thing on topic, so you may as well skip this entire article.
Starting with the assumption of standard 1Gev-100Gev http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weakly_interacting_ma ssive_particleWIMPS.
The predict that the early universe will be full of these dark star things, that are big, diffuse and don't create heavy element or
go supernova, and hang around for as long as 600 Million years. Since no one as seen any of these, and since we need the first stars
to go supernova, and inject lots of heavy elements into galaxies, this looks like a big argument against WIMPs as CDM. The authors
didn't say as much though, perphaps they they've become to fond of there dark stars while working on them.
Reading this paper, makes me think its more likely that http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror_matter Mirror Matter, is the proper dark matter. Mirror matter also makes dark stars, but these ones, don't stop ordinary star formation, and do go boom, possibly explaining gamma ray bursts.
Yes, they should take a pornstar or two on the mission and licence the movie footage to one of the major porn labels. The sales would probably pay for a major part of the mission. The only problem would be the titles which will be more excruciating than triple anal. Things like, Butt Wreck: Where no man has come before. I serious actually, it would be a good idea, and will probably be done in an orbitting hotel someday. But Nasa is of course too prudish to let it happen.
>Magnetic field science works on a multiple of squares system. >To generate 80 watts instead of 40 takes a field 4 times larger. Actually its the otherway round. The energy in a magnetic field is, E = 0.5*mu*B^2, where B is the field strength, so a 80 watts of power, gives a field 1.41.. times larger.